Shetland Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1992/995
Year1992

1992 No. 995 (S.95)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Shetland Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992

Made 6th April 1992

Coming into force in accordance with Article 1(2)

Whereas under section 17(1) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 19731the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland on 11th October 1991 submitted to the Secretary of State a report on a review together with their proposals for a change of the electoral arrangements for the Shetland Islands area;

Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 17(2) and 233 of the said Act and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Secretary of State hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Shetland Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1992.

(2) This Order shall come into force on 5th May 1994 provided that for the purpose of all proceedings preliminary or relating to an election to be held on or after that day the said Order shall come into force on 10th October 1993.

Interpretation
S-2 Interpretation

Interpretation

2. In the Schedule to this Order—

(a) a reference to—

(i) an electoral division shall be construed as a reference to that electoral division as constituted in this Order;

(ii) a road, footpath, railway line, river, burn or canal shall, where the context so admits, be construed as the centre line of the feature concerned; and

(iii) the boundary or boundaries of a parish is to a line corresponding as nearly as may be to the line of the boundary or boundaries of the parish concerned as already published on Ordnance Survey Maps; and

(b) the expedient of defining a line beyond Mean Low Water Springs has been adopted to apportion islands to the appropriate electoral division; and

(c) the following abbreviations are used:—

“MLWS” for the shoreline at Mean Low Water Springs;

“ED” for Electoral Division; and

“Grid Reference” for National Grid Reference as published on Ordnance Survey Maps.

Change of electoral arrangements

Change of electoral arrangements

S-3 The existing electoral divisions of the Shetland Islands Area...

3. The existing electoral divisions of the Shetland Islands Area shall be abolished and the said Area shall be divided into twenty-six electoral divisions having the names, contents and boundaries set forth in the Schedule to this Order.

S-4 The boundaries of the electoral divisions constituted by this...

4. The boundaries of the electoral divisions constituted by this Order shall be defined and mered by Ordnance Survey.

Revocation
S-5 Revocation

Revocation

5. Without prejudice to its continuing in effect for the purposes of defining the electoral divisions prior to the coming into force of this Order, the Shetland Islands Area (Electoral Arrangements) Order 19773is hereby revoked.

Ian Lang

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

6th April 1992

SCHEDULE

Articles 2 and 3

Electoral Division 1: Lerwick Lower Sound

Commencing at MLWS where the Burn of Sound flows into the Voe of Sound; then northward and westward along the said burn to a point in line with Ackrigarth Road; then northward along said road to South Road (A970); then eastward along said road to Nedersund Road; then southward and southeastward along said road to Kantersted Road; then northeastward and northward along said road to the cul-de-sac, part of Kantersted Road serving Nos.15-33 Kantersted Road, then eastward along said cul-de-sac and the continuation thereafter in a straight line to Sea Road; then northeastward in a straight line to the MLWS at North Taing; then generally southward, northward and westward along the MLWS to the point of commencement. Electoral Division 2: Lerwick Upper Sound

Commencing at MLWS in the Voe of Sound at the point where it is met by the prolongation of the fence from the Loch of Trebister across Heoga Berg; then northwestward along the said prolongation and the said fence, and continuing northwestward in a straight line across the Loch of Trebister to the fence at its western shore; then northwestward along the said fence; then northward in a straight line to the A970 road; then westward and southward along said road to its junction with the B9073 road; then in a straight line northward to the summit of Hill of Dale; then eastward in a straight line to the junction of Wester Loch Drive and the footpath along the western shore of the Loch of Clickimin; then southward along Wester Loch Drive to South Road (the A970) then westward along the A970 to the northern boundary of ED1; then generally southwestward and southeastward along the said ED boundary to MLWS at the Burn of Sound; then generally southward along the MLWS to the...

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